Marquette finishes the regular season against Georgetown on Saturday at Fiserv Forum.

The Golden Eagles (23-7, 12-5 Big East) will honor Matt Heldt, Cam Marotta and graduate transfer Joseph Chartouny on "Senior Day" before the game against the Hoyas (18-12, 8-9) at 1:30 p.m.

Heldt, a 6-foot-10 senior center from Neenah, is the lone scholarship player remaining from head coach Steve Wojciechowski's first recruiting class at MU.

Heldt talked Thursday about his time with the Golden Eagles, including his changing roles and bringing Wojciechowski to tears:

Q. Have the four years gone by fast for you?

A. Definitely fast. Since you're a freshman, everybody tells you "It's going to go fast." You don't really realize it, then next thing you know you're a sophomore, then a junior, then, dang, it's Year 4. It goes by really fast, though some days it doesn't feel like that when you're in a hard practice. In the moment, it's taking forever.

Q. You guys are going into this game struggling on a three-game losing streak. What do you guys need to do to right the ship?

A. Coach has been talking a lot about it. You can go through the whole top 25, and outside of Gonzaga, there's not a team that hasn't had a rough stretch where they've lost a few games. For us, that just happens to be toward the end of our season. The main thing we have to do is stay together, keep trusting each other and just get back to playing like the team we can play as. We did a little better against Seton Hall, we just weren't able to execute down the stretch. But I think we're getting back to it and it's nothing to be super worried about.

Q. You've been a starter and this season you've taken on a reserve role. Has it been hard for you to take a step back?

A. At first, yes, it's difficult. Especially going from starting and playing the majority of minutes to being the last guy at your position. But, at the end of the day, it's all about what's for the good of the team. Comparing last year to this year, would I take the same situation, knowing how good our team would be and how successful it would be? Yes, I would take that every time. Because it's more fun to win and to be the best team possible. It's fun to start, it's fun to play but it's more fun to win. And it's fun to win a lot.

Q. You took a mentoring role with Theo John last year and this season he's made a big jump. What kind of improvement have you seen from him?

A. I think part of it is figuring out the college game. It's a lot different than high school. The physicality. In practice, there's no fouls called and then in the game, there's refs. You kind of have to get some minutes before you figure out what's too much and not enough in the eyes of your coach. His confidence has gone up a lot, he's using his strength and athleticism in the right ways. Blocking shots and being physical.

Q. You were part of one of the moments that went viral this season, when Wojciechowski got emotional talking about your performance at Xavier. What did you think of that?

A. I think it goes to show the relationship he has with his players. I was part of his first recruiting class. I feel like that's an emotional thing for a coach when you're first starting out. Also he cares about all of us that way. Just the position I was in, where I went from starting to coming off the bench, is something he knows it not easy to do. I think it just got to him a little bit.

Q. How did you hear about that press conference?

A. I saw it on Twitter. It was all over the place. Then I had people texting me and sending me links to it.

Q. You signed with MU in Wojciechowski's first season when the team was 13-19. This season you guys were in the top 10. Did you see that turnaround coming?

A. Every year we just got better and better slowly. He's a really good recruiter. He's really honest, so he's recruiting guys that know what they're going to get from him. And guys who are bought into having the kind of culture we have here and a team that is truly a team. Like a band of brothers. This year I think we've been like that to the fullest, and that's been a big part of success.

Q. How have you grown as a player at MU?

A.I think my understanding of the game and my understanding of team dynamics has really gone up. When you're in high school, especially when as a D1 player, you're the best player on your team. You're getting the minutes, you're getting shots. Once you get to college, you have to fit in with all these great players and in order to do that you all have to sacrifice stuff for it. Understanding that, especially as a young player, isn't always easy. But once you get a team to buy into it, that's really what makes teams good.

Q. What about how you've grown off the court?

A. I think I've become a lot more mature. I feel like a lot of people do that in college. One of the biggest things is not to make decisions when you're emotional. Like you have to be able to assess situations before you decide what to do. A lot of that is from Coach Wojo, like after big wins or after bad losses. He's always going to make the practice plan when he's in the right frame of mind.

Q. What is the biggest takeaway from your time at Marquette?

A. There's so many things. I could talk about Marquette for so long and how great my experience has been here. One thing I would say is that I know I made the right choice and if I was able to do it over again I wouldn't go anywhere else. Even knowing everything that was going to happen: knowing I wouldn't start my senior year, hurting my knee my freshman year, I still would have came here. Going to Costa Rica on the mission trip was definitely a highlight of my four years. Same with going to Italy my freshman year, going to Hawaii my junior year. You get to see a lot of places. You get to experience a lot of things that probably not a lot of kids my age get to do.

Q. I've heard you mention law school. Is that what's next for you?

A. I'm going to take a gap year and then during that I'm going to take the LSAT and do the applying. My plan is to stay in Milwaukee. I'm going to try to get a job or an internship. Something I can do to get some more experience in life.